2British EnglishBrE informal a very small room, house etc 非常小的房间[房子]
I was living in a shoebox in Clapham.
我住在克拉珀姆一所非常小的房子里。
Examples from the Corpus
shoebox• She kept her cash in a shoebox under the bed.• We hazard a guess that they're lurking in a shoebox or, worse still, the ubiquitouscarrierbag!• She hid them in a shoebox in her closet.• LettersMike had written to his brothers, packed into a shoebox, sat at the end nearest us.• Enclosed in plastic casing of muddybeige, it was slightly bigger than a shoebox on end, about fourteen inches high.• His office -- smaller than his players' shoeboxes -- is in the same NorthGym fieldhouse where Tarkanian played guard.• In some of the envelopes in Boy's shoebox were photographs.• Madame's letter, and her books, were put into Boy's shoebox to join his collection of letters and photographs.